Fact-checking is so passé… December 15, 2012

The Labour Party has had many splits in its history. In the 1950s it divided into two parties. In later decades, its involvement in coalitions gave rise to monumental internal struggles and, in the early 1980s, even led to the defection of a Labour Party leader to Fine Gael.

The comments on factual inaccuracies in Whelan’s article are spot on, but should not put teaders off the text completely. It is a good assessment of Labour’s weakness. Interesting news reports elsrwhere that 1 LP Senator, Denis Landy of Tipperary may wobble on the Social Welfare Bill vote, and that the government might not be guaranteed victory on this issue in the Leinster House upper chamber. It seems this might delay implemrntation of Joan Burton’s cuts by 90 days.